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Re: A1200 PATA EIDE hard drive?
« on: March 20, 2011, 05:12:22 PM »
Quote from: Mizar;619515
I'm trying to replace my HD in my A1200, and would appreciate some advice.  I tried installing an EIDE Western Digital 80GB one, but the system wouldn't recognize it in HDToolBox, and I didn't hear it power up with the system like it should.  I read an A1200 hardware FAQ that said most IDE drives will work with the A1200, including EIDE.  It described them as Fast ATA.  The drive I tried was a Parallel ATA one, though EIDE.  Is this a different kind of drive that won't ever work, or do I just need to try a different brand?

I've heard about the Compact Flash drives that can be used in lieu of an actual hard drive, and those sound advantageous.  I don't need a gigantic 80 to 320GB drive like the Western Digital ones, so maybe that would be a better option.  My A1200 has 68030/68882, 32 MB fast RAM, Surf Squirrel SCSI, and OS3.9 BB1.  What all hard drive types are going to be compatible with the A1200?


Western Digital is all I use when I purchase drives There resiliant and Fast!  

Thomas can correct me if I'm wrong but I think the easiest way to get a big drive working is prepareing it on WinUAE or other Emu if you have a MAC.  Even though its not for the same OS your looking to use you may want to check this forum out on the second page about 1/2 way down Thomas has a tutorial that really helped me!

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40748&page=2

I use this to connect the drive up to my PC for prep.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812189169&cm_re=USB_to_IDE-_-12-189-169-_-Product

This works with all types of drives and can be a very usefull tool when trying to recover files from another computer.  

Hope this helps.  

I have a 60Gig I used in my Amiga.  And I'm making a 30Gig one for my CD32 Right now.

:D
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Re: A1200 PATA EIDE hard drive?
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2011, 05:26:28 PM »
Oh thats easy your are plugging it in upside down.
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CD32/SX1/30GigHD/2MBChip/ClassicWBv26w/3.1OS/SX1 isn\'t allowing fast ram :(
 

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Re: A1200 PATA EIDE hard drive?
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2011, 05:31:48 PM »
Quote from: Mizar;623062
I'm going to be installing a new 2.5" WD3200BEVE 298GB drive in my A1200 shortly.  I know that model should work, the 32.5 W PSU should be plenty, so if there's problems with this one too it must be the IDE cable or otherwise the master/slave business.  I should be able to get another cable locally, so if there's still issues does anyone happen to know on what position I should put a jumper on those 4 extra pins on the HD connector?


Amikit sells cables.  On Western Digitial drives "NO Jumper" Means Cable select.  If you have one drive and a cable with One plug then it will auto to master.  If you have 2 plugs on the cable use the one closes to the MB as that is the master plug.  Also if you have 2 drives make sure you have the second one set to Cable select as forcing to slave won't work they both need to be Cable select for this setup to work.

I really hope you get this working as I love my A1200 with a huge drive in it!  Its like unlimited space!
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Pi 2 with Emulation Station and A500+
AMD-PhenII-X6/Nvidia660GTX/8G-Ram/500G SSD/3TB-HD/Win10/SB-X-Fi
A1200/3.1Rom/60GigHD/2MBChip/64MBFast/ACA123028Mhz/WiFiMA401/ClassicWBv26w
CD32/SX1/30GigHD/2MBChip/ClassicWBv26w/3.1OS/SX1 isn\'t allowing fast ram :(
 

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Re: A1200 PATA EIDE hard drive?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2011, 01:08:50 AM »
Quote from: Mizar;630901
Are there buffered IDE interface boards still available?  I haven't seen any yet.  My HD transfer rate is inordinately slow around just 190KB/sec. :-(.  I'm not sure why, but maybe one of those boards could fix that.

Ah, SmartFileSystem is the key!  I'd heard that can have certain drawbacks, but it sounds essential if one wishes to use a huge HD.  It doesn't look like it's on Aminet, where do you get it?

PS. OS4.0 on your A1200, aye?  Cool!  It must have manageable system requirements for well expanded classic systems.


I just switched from SFS to the new FREE PFS3.  I don't know alot about different file systems but it seem alot of people are raving about this on.  I even when to the trouble to pull my drive out and completely reinstall it.

I believe you can get it on AMINet.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S
Pi 2 with Emulation Station and A500+
AMD-PhenII-X6/Nvidia660GTX/8G-Ram/500G SSD/3TB-HD/Win10/SB-X-Fi
A1200/3.1Rom/60GigHD/2MBChip/64MBFast/ACA123028Mhz/WiFiMA401/ClassicWBv26w
CD32/SX1/30GigHD/2MBChip/ClassicWBv26w/3.1OS/SX1 isn\'t allowing fast ram :(